Forgotten? Maybe.

You're at that holiday party with your relatives. Everyone is laughing and
having fun, the smell of food is in the air, and twinkling lights surround the
room. But it feels empty. Your cousin who is great at what she does is being
praised by your parents and grandparents, as you sit and smile blankly at them.
You love your family, but of course you don't tell them what your problems feel
like. You don't want to upset
them or come across as weak.

Yes, everyone is happy and joyful. Except for you. You say a few things every
now and then, but you are interrupted and ignored. They love you, right? Yeah.
They must. They're nice to you. They just don't
know it hurts you... And you're too scared to say it. Your cousin is so much
more accomplished than you. You have talents... But you don't match up. There
is always someone better than you and everyone will let you know that. You
constantly compare yourself to the best.

You still try your best at your dream, even if you know you will fail. But it's
useless. There are so many people in the world... And your life is so short.
Almost everyone is better than you. You aren't a bad person, but you aren't a
good person. You aren't hated. You have a good, average life. You don't have
many problems at all and all of your friends do. It makes you feel greedy or
stupid for not experiencing much. You don't want to kill yourself or hurt yourself.
You never have, and never plan on it.

Your friends would miss you and you know that. But you would be replaced or the
empty place would be the tiniest hole. You aren't involved in things a lot of
the time, and you are ignored a lot of the time, or interrupted. Like at this
party. You try to be loud and make jokes so that you would be noticed but every
time they don't laugh or find it a little bit funny you die on the inside.
You're wanted when you're the clown... You just want to coexist instead of live
to the side or die.

And then it hits you, the worst fear you've ever had. You block out what the others
are saying and stare into space. A chill runs down your spine at the very idea.
But this wasn't a monster. Oh no, it is completely real. And that's why it's terrifying.
You know that eventually you will grow away from your friends. After a few years
they will only have a few memories of being with you. After even longer, you
might as well be forgotten by them. And this will happen numerous times.

You won't ever be famous or rich. You feel greedy for saying this but you do
want that from your talents. You love doing it, but you want to be great. You
want to be loved by everyone. But you won't be. If a
stranger passes you by the street, they won't think anything about you. They
won't even assume you have a name, dreams, friends, family, and a life. You
aren't anyone of importance. After you die your dreams will be gone. If heaven
and hell exist you're definitely going to the latter. You never became good enough
with your dreams and talents. You died alone without love or children. You have
no friends. Your family is all dead. Probably nobody will even find your
lifeless body... The friends that you had in the past have all forgotten about
you. You aren't anyone. Nothing you have done will be remembered.

Nothing you have done was of importance. You never changed anyone's life. You
never wrote a bestselling novel. You were never a famous politician or a great
scientist who invented a cure for
some disease. If someone saw your name on a tombstone, they wouldn't pay any attention
to it. You are the empty space of a person. A stranger to everyone. Who nobody
wants to know. They think nothing about you.

Everything that you have done remains, but it's minuscule. Nobody thinks of it
as the work of "you." You are like a single caveman. No one thinks of
it as a being who had a life. They think of it as something that existed in the
past. It didn't have feelings, did it? No. Just like them, you are forgotten by
everyone. You might as well have never existed. Nothing you did will ever make
you known. And it's too late. Hundreds of years will pass after your death and
nobody even remembers your name.

You weren't good enough. You failed. You weren't bad enough to be remembered, either.
Your entire life went to waste as you were painfully average. Nothing happened.
You were forgotten to ever exist. And that has become reality. For now, life
will continue on in your holiday party that you hate... But that
will always remain in the back of your mind. They will forget about you. You're
already ignored. It's obvious. Obvious that it's the first step to being gone
with no trace.

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